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What other choices do families have for taking care of children or elderly persons at home?

Aside from employing a foreign domestic worker, you could a engage a domestic cleaning service to take care of household chores or tap on your extended family to look after the child or the elderly person. You can also consider childcare or after-school care and elderly day-care facilities.